Footnotes

1. John 8:2 *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
2. John 8:2 Some manuscripts have “were coming to him”
3. John 8:2 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“sat down”) has been translated as a finite verb
4. John 8:2 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to teach”)
5. John 8:3 Some manuscripts have “brought a woman”
6. John 8:4 Some manuscripts omit “testing him”
7. John 8:6 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
8. John 8:6 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to write”)
9. John 8:6 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
10. John 8:6 Some manuscripts omit “taking no notice”
11. John 8:7 Some manuscripts have “he straightened up and said”
12. John 8:9 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard”) which is understood as temporal
13. John 8:9 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
14. John 8:9 Some manuscripts omit “being convicted by their conscience”
15. John 8:9 *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to depart”)
16. John 8:9 Some manuscripts have “he”
17. John 8:10 Some manuscripts omit “and seeing no one except the woman”
18. John 8:10 Some manuscripts have “said to her, ‘Woman, where are they?”
19. John 8:11 Some manuscripts have “and from now on”
20. John 8:11 John 7:53–8:11 is not found in the earliest and best manuscripts and was almost certainly not an original part of the Gospel of John; one significant group of Greek manuscripts places it after Luke 21:38